She then tries to sell Cinderella to get her far away from the kingdom. In this version, Lady Tremaine keeps Cinderella from trying on the shoe, and no talking mice save her. What I Loved: The premise of this Cinderella retelling is what would happen if Cinderella had never tried on the glass slipper when the duke was sent to find the mysterious girl from the ball? The answer to the question is that a much better story happens! What I continue to enjoy in all these twisted tales is the chance for the characters to actually have some meaningful interactions before true love is declared and it ends in a wedding. before it’s too late.įor more twisted adventures, try the other books in the A TWISTED TALE series: Faced with questions of love and loyalty to the kingdom, Cinderella must find a way to stop the villains of past and present. But when the Grand Duke appoints her to serve under the king’s visiting sister, Cinderella becomes witness to a grand conspiracy to take the king―and the prince―out of power, as well as a longstanding prejudice against fairies, including Cinderella’s own Fairy Godmother. Unable to prove that she’s the missing princess, and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer, Cinderella attempts a fresh start, looking for work at the palace as a seamstress. The 9th installment in the New York Times best-selling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper?
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